Wake up baby !
A simple WWYD ....

First time mum here sitting round with *shock* time on my hands. Dinner is ready to go, house tidied but 16 week old DS has been asleep since 3.30pm, it's now 7.30pm, highly unusual.

He's been grizzly last day or so & in the middle of a 'leap' so I think he's pretty tired but would you wake him ? Or employ the old 'never wake a sleeping baby' creed ? He normally goes down for the night at this time & ordinarily I try not to have him napping past 5pm. Didn't get a huge nap earlier in the day (about 1.5 hrs)

He normally wakes 1-2 times during the night for a feed (around midnight then 4amish).

Once I did try but he wouldn't have a bar of it! lolIt was his first birthday, put him down for his afternoon nap around 2-3pm and he slept through til around 11pm when I gave him a bottle and he went back to sleep! I tried waking him around 5/6pm but he just kept falling back asleep. hehe

Sleep promotes sleep. *Even if* it means less sleep tonight, it could lead to more continuous sleep coming on in the next week or 2. Whenever DS did a late, long nap, it led to an increase in the length of his nightsleeps coming on. He now sleeps about 12 hours straight a night (with a few resettles, but no feeding).

Reporting in ...Dream feed didn't really work, he was super-hungry of course but was bright eyed and bushy tailed when I woke him around 1030pm. Awake for an hour or so then Daddy put him back to back, woke at 2am and 6am, so pretty normal for him.

I'd wake, without fail. I always wake 3 hourly during the day for feeds in the first six weeks and then leave as long as they need to go from 9pm onwards. Could just be luck but has worked well for me and have only ever had 1 night feed with both of my kids with a decent block on either side.